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BOARD OF ORANGE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS (BOCC) <br />GOALS — 2015 UPDATE <br />FOR DISCUSSIONS PURPOSES <br />24 <br />GOALS/PRIORITIES <br />ONGOING EFFORTS <br />SPECIFIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS <br />• Continue to support the delivery of permitting <br />• Expanding the public wireless Internet <br />and law enforcement reporting software to the <br />footprint in key areas throughout the Town <br />Town of Hillsborough via the Permits Plus <br />of Hillsborough and has worked with their <br />program and Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) <br />Board gaining approval for said expansion. <br />reporting software. <br />Emergency Services <br />Emergency Services <br />Emergency Services <br />• Continue to partner with multiple fire <br />• As of January 2015 over thirty citizens <br />departments across Orange County and the <br />have received fall prevention services from <br />Towns to co- locate our ambulances and crews. <br />the coordinated effort of EMS and Aging <br />• The EMS division continues to work with the <br />departments. <br />Department on Aging on the Stay Up Stay <br />• Expansion of the fall prevention program <br />Active program to provide fall prevention <br />in 2015 is planned to increase the number <br />services to citizens. <br />of citizens who will receive the vital <br />services. <br />Department of Environmental, Agricultural, Parks, <br />Department of Environmental, Agricultural, <br />and Recreation <br />Parks, and Recreation <br />• DEAPR and the Orange County Historic <br />• Orange County and the Town of <br />Preservation Commission (HPC) continue to <br />Hillsborough signed a 2014 Memorandum <br />work with the Town of Hillsborough Historic <br />of Agreement for the preservation of <br />District Commission (HDC) on the designation <br />cultural resources on public lands within <br />of historic landmarks located in the Town's ETJ <br />Hillsborough town limits. <br />but outside of the Town's designated Historic <br />• Orange County worked with the Town of <br />District. <br />Hillsborough to incorporate the Town's <br />River Walk project and signage /emergency <br />markers through the County River Park. <br />Planning & Inspections /OPT <br />Planning g & Inspections /OPT <br />• In accordance with the Joint Planning Land Use <br />• Hillsborough - An Inter -local Agreement <br />Plan and Agreement, Joint Planning Area (JPA) <br />with the Town of Hillsborough was signed <br />coordination and courtesy review with the <br />in December 2009 and amended in May <br />Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro is on- going. <br />2014 to end the Town's Extraterritorial <br />Jurisdiction (ETJ) expansion process and <br />proceed with ETJ relinquishment which <br />has been completed. A Joint Land Use <br />